November 24, 2004, Wednesday

In movies, 2003 will be heralded as the year that the parts dominated the whole. With the exception of ''The Return of the King,'' the final chapter of the brilliant ''Lord of the Rings'' epic, which, like history itself, swallowed up any individual...

HOLLYWOOD is a town ruled by conventional wisdom. Teenage boys rule at the box office. The most marketable actresses are both pretty and young. And female moviegoers are capricious and unpredictable. But some nominations for the Golden Globe...

Once upon a time there was a land in love with fame and brand names. By and by, some famous brand-name people, holed up in their castles, discovered a new trade. They started writing books for children. Many wrote books about children who sounded...